RT Book, Section
A1 Janson, Lee W.
A1 Tischler, Marc E.
SR Print(0)
ID 1152117932
T1 CARBOHYDRATES
T2 The Big Picture: Medical Biochemistry
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071637916
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1152117932
RD 2024/04/25
AB Carbohydrates  are  vastly  important  in  human  biology,  including  roles  as  a  major  energy  source,  structural  molecules  when  combined  with  other  carbohydrates,  proteins,  and  other  molecules,  and  binding  and  signaling  between  molecules  and  cells.  As  a  result  of  all  these  important  functions,  carbohydrate  biochemistry  is  involved  in  a  large  number  of  disease  states.  Although  multiple  carbohydrates  exist,  only  a  few  sugar  molecules  and  polysaccharides  are  important  to  human  physiology  (e.g.  only  eight  different  carbohydrates  are  found  as  constituents  of  glycoproteins  and  glycolipids).  However,  a  number  of  additional  molecules  created  by  linkages  of  carbohydrates  to  proteins  play  various  roles  in  cell–cell  interactions  and  biological  structures.